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Location: Carnegie, United States
The single-celled green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii generates hydrogen by
fermentation under low oxygen conditions. Cells in photo are stained with
fluorescent dyes. Purple indicates DNA, green indicates flagella.
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Location: Ohio, United States
Researchers have developed a new way to perform chemical reactions involving only about 1,000 molecules. The method could prove useful in the rapid screening of chemical reactions when searching for new drugs and industrial materials.
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Location: Indianapolis, United States
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a technique using spun-sugar
filaments to create a scaffold of tiny synthetic tubes that might serve as
conduits to regenerate nerves severed in accidents or blood vessels damaged by...
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Despite medicine's inestimable progress over the past century, surgery can
still leave scars that look more appropriate to Frankenstein's monster than to
the beneficiary of a precise, modern operation. But in the Wellman Center for...
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Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created nanoscale particles that can self-assemble into various optical devices. By controlling how densely the tiny silver particles assemble themselves, the researchers can make several...
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Location: School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, United States
A new technique for printing extraordinarily thin lines quickly over wide
areas could lead to larger, less expensive and more versatile electronic
displays as well new medical devices, sensors and other technologies.
Solving a...
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively
Studded with...
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
A wireless, nano-scale voltmeter developed at the University
of Michigan is overturning conventional wisdom about the physical
environment inside cells. It may someday help researchers tackle such tricky...
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Location: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 1070, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-1070, United States
Slides of the special effects
How to create an explosion? Which techniques are employed to put in scene
dinosaurs with men? The cinema uses many special effects to captivate the
spectators fully. The Net surfer shows you the back...
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Location: 902 Battelle Boulevard, Richland, WA 99352, United States
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have created a new
red fluorescent probe to label proteins and quantitatively monitor their
interactions in living cells. This probe adds to a toolkit of biarsenical dyes
developed...
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Location: Science and Technology Facilities Council, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon, SN2 1SZ ,, United Kingdom
Samples of micro organisms, antibodies, fluorescent dyes and
rock from Devon are amongst a European payload which will be sent into near
Earth orbit this week onboard an unmanned Russian spacecraft - exposing them to
the extreme conditions...
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Location: Georgia Institute of Technology :: Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new
technique for nanolithography that is extremely fast and capable of being used
in a range of environments including air (outside a vacuum) and liquids.
Researchers have...
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Location: 77 massachusetts avenue ,cambridge, ma 02139-4307, United States
A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray
CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. The technique, described in a paper published in...
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Location: Northwestern University ,
Department of Mechanical Engineering,Micro and Nanomechanics Lab 2145 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208, United States
The delivery, manipulation and assembly of functional materials such as metal
nanoparticles into predefined architectures and patterns is of great interest in
nanotechnology. Nanoscale patterns of nanoparticles have the potential to be
used...
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Location: Deutsches Kunststoff-Institut,Schlossgartenstr. 6,64289 Darmstadt, Deutschland, Germany
Imagine cleaning out your refrigerator and being able to tell at a glance whether perishable food items have spoiled, because the packaging has changed its color, or being able to tell if your dollar bill is counterfeit simply by stretching it to...
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Location: Room 136 Hudson Hall • Box 90281 • Durham, NC 27708-0281,Phone: (919) 660-5131 • Fax: (919) 684-4488, United States
The “brain scope,” which is inserted into a dime-sized hole in the skull, may be particularly useful for the bedside evaluation of critically ill patients when computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment is unavailable,...
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Location: Chemistry & Biochemistry,Georgia Institute of Technology,901 Atlantic Drive,Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, United States
Producing three-dimensional polymer line
structures as small as 65 nanometers wide just became easier with new two-photon
absorbing molecules that are sensitive to laser light at short wavelengths,
allowing researchers to create them without...
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